Mental Health and Wellbeing
Our programme of research is concerned with the promotion of mental health and well being at primary, secondary and tertiary levels and support for those whose mental health is or has been compromised. The team are committed to ensuring that users of mental health services and those caring for them are at the centre of our research activity.
To date the team have been involved with a variety of projects that seek to further our understanding of suicide, self harm, the mental health and well being of marginalised groups, childhood sexual abuse, Telehealth, and young carers.
Alongside this work have been a number of projects that explore the educational preparation of mental health professionals, including projects on user and carer involvement in mental health curricula and the use of creative approaches in mental health education.
The team’s engagement in research and other scholarly activity is at local, national and international level. For example four members of the team belong to Mental Health Academic UK, one is a member of the Step by Step Project Board-devising and implementing a national strategy to support school communities following a suicide and two members are on the scientific committees of international professional journals, one being an associate editor.
The commitment and success of the team is evident by its publication record in high impact international journals and invitations to write book chapters.
As the links between research, education and the clinical setting are vital to our activities we have and continue to develop a number of collaborative links. Included in our links are Greater Manchester West Mental Health Foundation Trust; Salford Carers; Samaritans, Salford Royal NHS Trust, 42nd Street, Barnardo’s Mental Health Academics UK.
People
Our team is led by Professor Tony Warne, Professor of Mental Health Care and Dr Sue McAndrew
Key projects
- Empowering the professionalization of nurses through mentorship in seven European Union countries - Warne T, and Holland K., 2010, EmpNURS. An ERASMUS Multilateral Project (Life Long Learning).
- 'Younique voices'- A study of health and wellbeing: experiences, views and expectations of seldom heard and marginalised groups in Rochdale Borough, Project Report, Salford: University of Salford - Williamson, T, Ryan, Julia, Hogg, Christine and Fallon, Debbie 2009,
- Shaping the Future for Primary Care Education and Training Project. North West Development Agency. A study to identify the education and training needs for the delivery of integrated health and social care - Holland K., and Warne T., 2006,
- Telehealth in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Innovation Fund for Children’s Services, Scottish Executive - Grealish, A, Glaze, R, & Wrate, R, 2002
- Educational preparation for mental health nursing. English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Visiting - Stark S, Stonach I., Warne T, Skidmore D, Cooton A, & Montgomery M., (2000). An outcomes evaluation of the contribution of mental health nurses within the multi-professional multi-agency team was developed.
Postgraduate research
A number of PhD and professional doctorate students are undertaking research relating to mental health and well being. Examples include:
- Life achievements of those who have lived with mental illness
- I can’t get a thing done: An ethnography of acute mental health nursing
- Stories of self Harm: a critical approach to the existing evidence base and the proposal of alternative perspectives
- Ordinary people -extraordinary voices: An investigation and exploration of lay people's attitudes and beliefs about mental health and illness
- Interpersonal Processes and Self Injury
- Painting a picture of learning from service users
Key publications
Warne T. and McAndrew S. (Eds) 2010 Creative approaches in health and social care education and practice: Knowing me, understanding you. Palgrave Publishers ISBN/ISSN 0- 230- 57446-5.
Warne T. and McAndrew S. 2010 Mirror, Mirror: Reflections on the emotionally intelligent practitioner. Journal of Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice. 157-167
Hogg C. and Warne T. 2010 Ordinary people, extraordinary voices: The emotional labour of lay people caring for and about people with a mental health problem. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 19, 297-306.
McAndrew S. and Warne T. 2010 Coming out to talk about suicide: Gay men and Suicidality. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 19, 92 – 101.
Warne T. and McAndrew S. 2010 Re-searching for therapy: the ethics of using what we are skilled in. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 17, 503-509.
Collier E. 2010 Confusion of Recovery; one solution. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 19, 16-21.
Hunter A., Grealish A.M. and Dowling M. 2010 Improving quality of life for adolescents with psychosis. Mental Health Practice 13(7), 32-35.
Fallon P. 2009 The role of intrusive and other recent life events on symptomatology in relapses of schizophrenia; a community nursing investigation. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 16, 685-693.
Allen S. (2007). Self harm and the words that bind: a critique of common perspectives. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 14 (2), 172-178.
Warne T. and McAndrew S. 2005 The shackles of abuse: unprepared to work at the edges of reason? Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 12, 679-685.
Warne T., and McAndrew S. (Eds) 2004 Using Patient Experience in Nurse Education. Palgrave Publishers ISBN/ISSN 1-403-93401-0.
